Hopefully come spring, I can add some more data points in here.
I have a set of 16's with re71's on them, and have a spare set of 16's that I plan to have mounted with either the Nexen SUR4 (http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Nexen&tireModel=N+FERA+SUR4) or the Maxxis VR-1 (http://www.maxxis.com/catalog/victra-vr-1).
I do quite a bit of track work up here in the sumer, so hopefully I can add some on the sticky skreet tire side of things.
And for those who want to differentiate, most sanctioning bodies consider a street tire something with 180'ish TW or above, and anything less than 140TW would be an r-compound or a slick.
Stuff like the old Toyo R1-R and the original RS3 Hankook with the 140TW were the last of that batch, and nothing aside from the Yokohama AD-08R is really a sub-200TW skreet tire anymore.
Stuff like the Yokohama A-048 and the Toyo R888(and now R888R) are that blurred line of "streetable", but still a track focused tire.
So, 140TW+ = street tire
anything less than 140tw = R-compound... make sense?
true slicks for the most part, aren't going to mash well with most suspension setups on here. They can be made to work, but the motion ratios and camber curves of our cars(and most production cars for that matter) aren't up to the job of making a true slick work in an optimum way. Not saying they don't work, but an r-compound would probably be almost as fast with much less involved for 95% of people that would consider the change.
Just my $.02 from a tire guys perspective and quite a few years of setting up and tracking multiple different chassis....
I have a set of 16's with re71's on them, and have a spare set of 16's that I plan to have mounted with either the Nexen SUR4 (http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Nexen&tireModel=N+FERA+SUR4) or the Maxxis VR-1 (http://www.maxxis.com/catalog/victra-vr-1).
I do quite a bit of track work up here in the sumer, so hopefully I can add some on the sticky skreet tire side of things.
And for those who want to differentiate, most sanctioning bodies consider a street tire something with 180'ish TW or above, and anything less than 140TW would be an r-compound or a slick.
Stuff like the old Toyo R1-R and the original RS3 Hankook with the 140TW were the last of that batch, and nothing aside from the Yokohama AD-08R is really a sub-200TW skreet tire anymore.
Stuff like the Yokohama A-048 and the Toyo R888(and now R888R) are that blurred line of "streetable", but still a track focused tire.
So, 140TW+ = street tire
anything less than 140tw = R-compound... make sense?
true slicks for the most part, aren't going to mash well with most suspension setups on here. They can be made to work, but the motion ratios and camber curves of our cars(and most production cars for that matter) aren't up to the job of making a true slick work in an optimum way. Not saying they don't work, but an r-compound would probably be almost as fast with much less involved for 95% of people that would consider the change.
Just my $.02 from a tire guys perspective and quite a few years of setting up and tracking multiple different chassis....